It may be simple for YOU Bonnie, but those of us with good software which
does all the figuring for you, do NOT find it simple when someone spots a
station on 14071. I click on that, and my rig goes to 14070, and hopes the
signal is at 14071 on the waterfall, and quite often is NOT there, because
someone else uses a different offset. I too started out with spotting the
rigs freq, and quickly understood that is NOT where the signal is in the
waterfall, and that my spot was rather useless to those who had software
that did if for them.
Those of you that jiggle the main tuning knob around to do their tuning, can
still do so. You have to know what YOUR offset is anyway, so go ahead and
tune it where you know it will set the waterfall tracer up where YOU want
it. I dont care at all what YOUR offset is. Just giving me the correct
spot, allows instant tuning and I dont have to search around amongst 30 or
so digital signals to find the station you just told me was there.
Contraywise, if I tell you the signal is on 14,17205, you just have to
subtract(or add) your offset from that and you know where to set your
tranceivers knob. On top of all that, when I spot a station, my software
automatically sends it out with the ofset figured in, so if you go to the
frequency in the waterfall, you will find the signal I spotted. The four
software packages I have used do this automatically. They also give me the
whole freq readeout right above, or below, the signals on the waterfall.
(Which is what they spot).
As to the percentages of those who use CAT or not, I have no idea. But, it
would supprise me if their isnt a larger percentage that do - than dont.
Certainly with all new tranceivers being built to allow CAT control, I
cannot imagine that most hams in the future will be using CAT. After all,
we most all have a computer already - and are using that to send/receive
digital modes - so the equpment is there to run CAT control.
It is far more convenient to use CAT control, and the automatic offset -
than to fiddle with knobs.
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Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
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QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
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